Yu's mother recognized Wisteria as her goddaughter's banquet two days later, and almost all the qualified people in the Zhuangzi came. Because she is Zirui's godgirl, a few third-class girls in the second lady's courtyard also came to join in the fun. Although the second lady's nurse, Mama He, Shuangqiao and the four second-class girls did not come, they asked Zirui to bring gifts over, and even the second miss heard about it and took the silver to add two seafood dishes in her small kitchen and sent them over.

Ma Wu's family received two taels of silver from Yu's mother, and did their best to cook two large tables of dishes. The Ma Wu family does not have nieces to rely on like Yu's mother, nor is it like Wu Wenxiu who is in charge of the family and is the steward of Zhuangzi. I am only responsible for some chores on weekdays, a daughter got married the year before last, and the life is just passing, and the son next to me is 12 years old this year. The total monthly income of the family is only one or two silver, but fortunately, she works in the big kitchen, although she can't have meat every day, but the family's food is not a problem.

Although she didn't know why there was such a quarrel between her mother and Wu Wenxiu, she knew one thing that she couldn't offend these two people. Therefore, she usually loves her very little, but this time she didn't pull it to her own home at all.

The table was set up in the garden of flowers and trees, and the summer evening was refreshing and pleasant, and Zirui specially asked the little maid to buy two jars of good wine. Wisteria was wearing a new tuft of green clothes and green pants, combing her bun behind her ears, and wearing the pair of beaded flowers that Zirui gave her last time, and her face was delicate and childish. She knelt in front of her mother, held the tea in her hand high above her head, and said to her godmother to drink tea. Yu's mother took the tea with a happy face, and took off a silver bracelet with the thickness of a small hand fat from her wrist and put it on Wisteria's wrist, and the gift was completed.

Since the old lady lived in Zhuangzi, these mothers-in-law and girls are careful every day, and today is a rare opportunity to eat and drink very happily. But because the carriage of the prince and the lady of the prince would arrive in Zhuangzi the next day, no one dared to stay for a long time, and as soon as the sky darkened, the people dispersed.

The next day, all the people in the Zhuangzi got up early in the morning and swept all the people from the gate of the Zhuangzi to the second gate with water, and all the people were in good spirits. In the middle of the afternoon, the chariots and horses of the prince and the wife of the prince finally entered the gate of Zhuangzi in the hope of everyone. There was a blue-black horse in the first place, and there was a young man twenty miles away, although he did not look like Pan An, but he was also a jade tree in the wind, with sword eyebrows and starry eyes, and a straight nose and mouth. A handful of jet-black hair is tied with mutton fat hostas, and she wears a Hangzhou silk with an indigo pattern, which is elegant and a little noble. This is Xie Zhong, the son of Zhongguo, who is twenty-three years old this year.

When approaching the second gate, Xie Zhong threw off his horse, threw the whip in his hand behind him, and the little servant behind him took it quickly. Turning back to the carriage that followed closely behind, after the servant had set up the footstool, he lifted the curtain himself.

"Daddy" a child's immature voice came. Then I saw the prince take out a child of about four or five years old with a horn from the carriage. Wearing a very festive red silk shirt, the corners of his eyebrows and eyes are handsome.

The boy hugged Xie Zhong tightly, with a pair of big eyes like grapes, looking around, he looked lively and active. Xie Zhong put the child on the ground, and stretched out his hand to greet a woman in her early twenties with a cigarette bun, a blue Luo skirt, bright eyes and bright teeth, and white skin from the carriage. After she put Qianqianyu's hand on the hand of the prince and got out of the carriage, she turned around and took a child from the carriage, the child was sleeping soundly, and was covered by a small tiger head hat, and he couldn't see clearly. Neither of them spoke, the prince picked up the older child and took the lead in the sedan chair, and the woman held the child in her arms and sat in the other sedan chair with a grandmother. After the sedan chair of the two people was lifted, the servants behind them followed closely in small steps, and the mother-in-law and the little servants who were doing rough work on the Zhuangzi flocked to the carriages that arrived one after another and began to lift and move.

There were many people standing on the corridor of the main courtyard of the Evergreen Academy, and the leading one was Xie Fang, the second lady of the Zhongguo Mansion, combing a double-ring bun, and inserting a small butterfly hairpin on one side, the butterfly was lifelike, and its wings seemed to be about to fly with Xie Fang's movement. I saw that the second lady had beautiful eyebrows, a slender figure, a moon-white pleated long Confucian skirt, a tender green ribbon tied around her waist, and her eyes revealed a naughty wit.

Seeing the sedan chair enter the second door, he hurriedly came down from the cloister, and Xie Zhong got out of the sedan chair and took the boy out. As soon as the little boy's feet landed, he saw Xie Fang and shouted loudly, "Second aunt, I'm here." ”

Xie Fang walked a few steps quickly, ran to the little boy's side, squatted down and said, "You are a little clever, but you think badly of your aunt, are you obedient on the road?" ”

This boy is the great-grandson of Mrs. Lin, the eldest grandson of Zhongguo Gong, and is called Brother Lang.

"I'm obedient, not only did I not trouble my father and mother, but I also helped take care of Brother Yue!" After speaking, he proudly puffed up his small chest.

"Oh, Brother Yue is here too?" Xie Fang straightened up and looked up and asked the eldest brother.

"Well, after all, you have to live for a while, your sister-in-law is really not at ease, my mother thought that the two brothers had never gone out when they were so old, so they simply agreed to come together. I didn't tell me in advance, I was thinking of a surprise for my grandmother. Xie Zhong flicked the straight jacket on his body, looked at his sister, and said with a pleasant face.

The two were talking, and the woman behind them had already gotten off the sedan chair with Brother Yue in her arms. Xie Fang walked straight towards the woman past the eldest brother, made a blessing salute, and happily called "sister-in-law".

This woman is the wife of the prince of Zhongguo Mansion, the eldest daughter of Xu Guangda, the current head of the household department. Xu slowly handed over the young son who was still sleeping in his arms to the grandmother beside him, and took Xie Fang's hand,

"Let my sister-in-law see, the water of this Bailao Spring is indeed nourishing, and I see that it is much more beautiful than a month ago!" The words were said to his husband. Xie Zhong just smiled and didn't answer.

Xie Fang grabbed Xu's arm and said affectionately: "Sister-in-law is used to making fun of me. "The attitude is intimate and natural, and it can be seen that the relationship between the two is very good.

Brother Lang, who was standing there, waited impatiently, kicked the bluestone slab with his toes and said, "If we don't go in again, my great-grandmother will be in a hurry, I haven't seen you for so long, I don't know what to think of me!" ”

In a word, it caused a yard of people to laugh. The curtain of the main house was opened, and a girl wearing a peach-pink summer cloth bijia and silver and white flowered pants walked out, with a sweet smile on her round face, and bowed to several masters:

"The old lady heard the bustle in the courtyard, and she was very anxious, and asked what was going on, but she didn't go in?"

Xie Fang couldn't help but smile and said, "Winter Pattern, let's go in, let's go in." ”

A burst of laughter woke up Brother Yue in Mama's arms, Brother Yue'er, who was already 2 years old, was well-behaved and cute, did not cry, looked at everyone with a pair of big eyes, and saw that everyone was laughing, and he grinned.

Xu took Brother Yue from his grandmother's arms and followed him into the main house.

The old lady of Zhongguo Mansion Lin is 61 years old this year, because of the comfort of life, she eats fasting and recites Buddha, and she has to go to the garden every day to stroll, and when she is in a good mood, she will go to the vegetable garden to pick vegetables, so she looks like she is in her 50s.

Mrs. Lin sat on a low couch with a carved red lacquer and jade backrest in the main hall, and wore a purple-red moire tuanhua gown. The gray hair was not messed up at the back of the head, and only a sandalwood hairpin was inserted. There was a smile in his gentle eyes, loving and kind.

Seeing that the juniors were coming one after another, he got up from the couch and was about to come down with the hand of the servant. Xie Zhong hurriedly took a few steps forward, lifted his robe and knelt down, and Hulala also knelt down behind him.

"My grandson has seen my grandmother" Xie Zhong bent down and was about to kowtow, but was held up by the old lady and pulled up.

"Don't be so polite, get up quickly," the old man said to the people behind him.

"Great-grandmother, how are your bones, and you can insist on drinking loquat water?"

Brother Lang, who is just five years old, speaks early, and speaks clearly and clearly. Zhong Guogong has said more than once that the children of the Guogong Mansion do not need to participate in the scientific examination, otherwise with Brother Lang'er's intelligence, he may not come back with a champion to glorify his ancestors.

Brother Lang'er's words melted the old lady's heart, and she beckoned to Brother Lang

"Come here, let my great-grandmother see, are you tired, can you eat comfortably on the road?"

"Well, eat well, live well, my father said, the weather is not in a hurry, the carriage is slow, my brother and I are healthy!" After speaking, he snuggled in the arms of the old lady.

"Oh, I'll just say why there are so many people, dare to love our brother Yue is also here, hurry, come to grandmother."

Brother Yue walked slowly in front of the old lady with his little short legs, and did not squeak, but raised his face and smiled at the old lady. Xu Shi, who followed behind, sighed in his heart, these two brothers are completely different types, Brother Lang leaves early, talks early, and has no time to be idle as long as he opens his eyes one day. Brother Yue is alive and well as a girl, she doesn't like to walk when she walks late, no matter where she goes, she will be hugged by someone no matter where she walks, and she will talk too, and if you can not say it, you won't say it, so you can't say it, and you won't open your mouth anymore after spitting out one or two words.

At first, Xu was worried, afraid that there was something wrong, but after inviting the imperial doctor who is good at pediatrics in the palace to see it, he said that he was very healthy, so that she didn't have to worry, there was such a child, everything was later than others, but at a certain age, it was not worse than others. Because Brother Yue is the same as a normal child except for these things, Xu has no choice but to talk to him more and lead him to walk more, and there is no other way.

The old lady hugged Brother Yue, who walked to her side, and Mama Wang next to her wanted to reach out to help, but was pushed away by the old lady.

"How much a milk doll can weigh, it's not in the way." Then he pointed to those who were standing below, and said, "Sit down, sit down." He turned to Mama Wang and said, "Bring the ice bowl of the assorted fruits, and the children will be cool on this hot day." ”

This Mama Wang was the old lady's dowry girl back then, and she never got married and waited by the old lady's side, which was the most important thing for the old lady.

The big girl in the old lady's room standing by the door, Dongwen, let the little girl carry the embroidery pier and put it on both sides of the low couch. While laughing, he said:

"It's been prepared for a long time, Qiutang will go and get it."

"Okay, let's eat something cool first, but not much, and wait for the evening, ask them to make your favorite food, okay?" gently patted Brother Yue in his arms with his hand, and the room was full of smiles.